Occult Theocracy - Jews a series of sects

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" That there was no such nation as the Israelites,
is a truth — found in the consideration that they are
not mentioned beyond the Bible in any records what-
ever. Egypt knew them not, Persia knew them not,
Hindostan knew them not, Scythia knew them not,
Phoenicia knew them not, Greece knew them not, as
a nation. And in the first general notice that we have
of the Jews, they are introduced to the world as a
sect, or a series of sects, being Pharisees, Sadducees,
and Essenes ; and in that general notice, beyond that
sort of mistaken allegorical history which Josephus
    • Carlile, Manual of Freemasonry, p. 88.
88                    OCCULT THEOCRASY
has copied from the books of the Old Testament, and
which is not otherwise corroborated, and no better
authority than the book of the Old Testament, there
is no presentation of the Jews as the descendants of
a larger nation of Israelites ; as a religious or philo-
sophical sect of distinction, mixed up with, and found
in real human history, they are not to be traced higher
than the century before the Christian era. It is satis-
factory to be able to show the origin of anything, for
such a knowledge is a common passion and curiosity
among mankind ; and I think the Rev. Robert Taylor
has discovered and developed the origin of the titles
of Hebrew, Israelite, and Jew. 4
   " Hebrew, Israelite, and Jew, are Syriac, Phoenician
and Egyptian terms used in the mysterious degrees ;
and it would be as reasonable to argue that the Free-
masons are a dispersed nation, as that the Jews are,
or were, a dispersed nation. The Rev. Mr. Taylor has
beautifully explained this in his discourses. 5
   " The scenes and characters of the mysterious drama,
as found in the Eleusinian Orgies of Greece, were : —
   Eleusis. — The Advent, or coming-in light —• the birth
and character of the subject of the drama — the title of
the whole play or mystery.
   Hierophant. — The Expounder of the Mysteries, the High
Priest, the Pope, the Archbishop.
   Hupereet. — The Minister, or Ordinary Priest.
  Diaconos. — The Deacon, or Lower Officer.
  Diadochos. — The Torch-bearer.
   Photagogue. — The Bringer-in of Light.
   Autoptos. — The Candidate admitted to see the sight.
The visitor of the Temple — the Church- and Chapel-goer.
   Autopsy. — The sight itself.
   4. Ibid., p. viii.
   5. Ibid., p. x i .
                                                          89
                 JUDAISM,   THE PHARISEES
   Hebrew. —The initiated Candidate who had passed through
all the degrees of the mystery.
   Teleios. — The adept, or perfected.
   Israelite. — God-seer, purified from all guile.
   Jew .— The God himself, or the mysterious perfection and
deification of the human character.
   " The whole type of what may be made of human nature
by cultivation of mind, which is the conditional promise
of paradise, or kingdom of heaven. This is the revelation of
all the mysteries. "
   Carlile further states 6 " We are prepared with
historical disproofs of the existence of such a people
as Israelites or Jews as a nation. They were a religious
or philosophical sect, who had been made adepts in
the higher Pagan Mysteries : a sect among nations ;
but not a nation among sects. "
   Judaism sanctions Gnosticism which is further elabo-
rated in their books of the Cabala.

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